Matthew Johnston
Areas of Interest
Public Safety
Corrections
Mental Health
Sociology
Criminology
Qualitative Inquiry
Gender
Policy
Courses
SOCI 2450A (Crime and Society)
Selected Publications
Refereed Journal Articles
Ricciardelli, R., 杏吧原创, R.N., Taillieu, T., Dorniani, S., Johnston, M.S., Carbonell, M., Coulling, R., Andres, E., & Afifi, T.O. (2024). Provincial and territorial correctional service workers: A Canadian national and jurisdictional assessment of mental health. Journal of Criminal Justice, 91, 1-11.
Johnston, M.S., Ricciardelli, R., & Whitten, C. (2024). 鈥淭hat鈥檚 not rehabilitation, that鈥檚 enabling鈥: Correctional officer perspectives on the Prison Needle Exchange Program. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 51(1), 66-85.
Johnston, M.S., & Ricciardelli, R. (2024). Invisible ghosts of care and penality: Exploring Canadian correctional workers鈥 perceptions of prisoner well-being, accountability and power. Criminology & Criminal Justice, 24(1), 291-312.
Johnston, M.S., Sanscartier, M.D., & Steckle, R. (2023). Patient resistance to psychiatric discourse and power. Disability Studies Quarterly, 42(3-4).
Johnston, M.S., Coulling, R., & Ricciardelli, R. (2022). Unpacking provincial Canadian correctional workers鈥 experiences with transgender prisoners in Nova Scotia, Canada. Journal of Criminology, 55(4), 550-567.
Johnston, M.S., Ricciardelli, R., & McKendy, L. (2022). Fight or flight? Exploring suicide thoughts, experiences, and behaviours among correctional workers and their interventions of agency. Sociology of Health & Illness, 44(9), 1500-1516.
Johnston, M.S., Ricciardelli, R., & McKendy, L. (2022). Improving the mental health of correctional workers: Perspectives from the field. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 49(7), 951-970.
Gervais, C., & Johnston, M.S. (2022). Reconsidering reconciliation within families of youth who sexually offend. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37(11-12), NP10093-NP10125.
Sanscartier, M.D., & Johnston, M.S. (2021). Learning the language of craft: A publishing workshop for graduate students. Teaching in Higher Education, 26(2), 197-210.
Johnston, M.S. (2020). Through madness and back again: An autoethnography of psychosis. Journal of Autoethnography, 1(2), 137-155.
Johnston, M.S. (2020). 鈥淗e sees patients as lesser people鈥: Exploring mental health service users鈥 critiques and appraisals of psychiatrists in Canada. Disability & Society, 35(2), 258-279.
Steckle, R., Johnston, M.S., & Sanscartier, M.D. (2020). Flying through the Cuckoo鈥檚 nest: Countering the politics of agency in public criminology. Crime, Media, Culture. 16(2), 287-306.
Johnston, M.S. (2019). When madness meets madness: Insider reflections on doing mental health research. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 18, 1-13.
Johnston, M.S., Sanscartier, M.D., & Johnston, G. (2018). Dirty work, dirty resistance: Digital warfare in the era of precarious labor. Canadian Review of Sociology / Revue canadienne de sociologie, 55(2), 278-297.
Johnston, M.S., & Steckle, R. (2018). Psychiatric post-anarchism: A new direction for insurrection in the mental health system. Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research, 7, 232-257.
Coulling, R., & Johnston, M.S. (2018). The criminal justice system on trial: Shaming, outrage, and gendered tensions in public responses to the Jian Ghomeshi verdict. Crime, Media, Culture, 14(2), 311-331.
Johnston, G., & Johnston, M.S. (2017). 鈥淲e fight for all living things鈥: Countering misconceptions about the radical animal liberation movement. Social Movement Studies, 16(6), 735-751.
Johnston, M.S. (2016). Men can change: Transformation, agency, ethics and closure during critical dialogue in interviews. Qualitative Research, 16(2), 131-150.
Johnston, M.S., & Kilty, J.M. (2016). 鈥淚t鈥檚 for their own good鈥: Techniques of neutralization and security guard violence against psychiatric patients. Punishment & Society, 18(2), 177-197.
Johnston, M.S., & Kilty, J.M. (2015). You gotta kick ass a little harder than that: The subordination of feminine, masculine, and queer identities by private security in a hospital setting. Men and Masculinities, 18(1), 55-78.
Johnston, M.S., & Hodge, E. (2014). 鈥淒irt, death and danger? I don鈥檛 recall any adverse reaction鈥︹: Masculinity and the taint management of hospital private security work. Gender, Work & Organization, 21(6), 546-558.
Book Chapters
Ricciardelli, R., & Johnston, M.S. (2022). Police mental health and wellness. In H. Pontell (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Oxford University Press.
Johnston, M.S., & Kilty, J.M. (2014). Power, control and coercion: Exploring hyper-masculine performativity by private guards in a psychiatric ward setting. In D. Holmes, J.D. Jacob, & A. Perron (Eds.), Power and the Psychiatric Apparatus: Repression, Transformation and Assistance (pp. 61-90). Ashgate.
Book Reviews
Johnston, M.S. (2018). 鈥淧sychiatry Interrogated: An Institutional Ethnography Anthology,鈥 edited by Bonnie Burstow (2016). Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 7(1), 126-139.
Reports
Ricciardelli, R., Mario, B., Sibley, M.A., & Johnston, M.S. (2023). The Newfoundland and Labrador report on correctional worker experiences and ideas for future design at Her [His] Majesty鈥檚 Penitentiary. Newfoundland and Labrador Justice and Public Safety and Workplace NL. 54 pages. Available: